The Trump Organization was sued by New York's attorney general.
The AG said Thursday that Eric and Donald Trump had been served.
The service took three weeks with the AG accusing Trump of gamesmanship.
Donald Trump lost the first legal skirmish in his battle against New York's attorney general after three weeks and a court order.
James said in a court filing Thursday that Trump was finally served by sending in electronic mail a message containing a secure cloud link to the files.
The lawsuit seeks a quarter-billion dollars in penalties and bars the Trumps from doing business in New York because it accuses them of exaggerating the company's worth.
The lawsuit was filed three weeks ago, but representatives for Trump and his son didn't show up to serve it.
The attorney general sent Habba and Robert emails requesting confirmation that they were the appropriate persons to accept service, but Habba and Robert didn't reply.
According to documents released by the DOJ, the FBI seized top- secret documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.
The lawyers for all of the defendants quickly accepted service.
The silent treatment from Donald and Eric Trump came despite Habba and Robert having submitted notices to the court in late September declaring themselves to be Attorneys of Record for the case.
James' office accused Trump's side of gamesmanship. She wanted a court order that would allow her to simply email the papers to Habba and Robert.
Emailing the papers to the two lawyers was enough for the case to be handled by the Manhattan judge. Their Monday filing said that James sent off those emails.
Habba and Robert haven't commented on the delay in service of the lawsuit.
October 31st is the date for oral arguments in the next dispute.
The attorney general's claim that the Trump Organization is so rife with fraud that it needs an independent financial monitor to be appointed and overseen by the judge will be argued over by the sides.
The same judge who found Trump in contempt of court for not fully complying with the attorney general's subpoenas in the two-year run-up to her filing suit is currently involved in another dispute.
Habba wants the lawsuit to be handled by a judge in Manhattan's commercial division, which deals with complex business disputes.
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